Sunday, October 16, 2016

Van Helsing: Season 1, Episode 5: Fear Her

On the interesting storyline:

Vanessa has been captured and is taken before Julius so
he can use her as bait to get to Rebecca (the sexy evil vampire) and through
her get to Dmitri so he can then kill Dmitri and become master of them all

Nice exposition there Julius.

But he wants to test Vanessa first so after lots of
dramatic speeches and noting that many of his vampire minions are afraid of her
he decides to announce a challenge. He wants a vampire to step up, fight
Vanessa and prove/disprove her abilities

The volunteer is… Susan. Yes Vanessa’s old neighbour and
best friend who is now a vampire. Vanessa isn’t a big fan of beating her best
friend but when Vampire Susan talks about eating Dylan, Vanessa’s daughter,
Vanessa is done. One display of awesome fighty powers late, Vanessa bites Susan
(can I just say how much the whole human biting vampire to turn them thing
really amuses me? Nice touch there Van
Helsing)

With the distraction of this Vanessa can escape with the
now human Susan who tells her that Dylan isn’t dead despite the nastiness of
vampire-Susan but she doesn’t really know where she is. They escape to the
Ominous Tunnels of Ominousness

With the distraction of this Vanessa can escape with the
now human Susan who tells her that Dylan isn’t dead despite the nastiness of
vampire-Susan but she doesn’t really know where she is. They escape to the
Ominous Tunnels of Ominousness

I suppose since Julius mentioned Dmitri we should check
up on him. He’s being creepy, slightly incestuous and vaguely comic. So
business as usual. Honestly I'm not exactly menaced by this villain

While Rebecca is being sexual, vaguely ominous and
unexplained – this week letting Sheema go despite catching her exploring the
tunnels at vampire HQ. Sheema
is Mohammed’s sister and a member of the Resistance who intend to use her
tunnel knowingness for some purpose or other.

Alas, this concludes the interesting storylines and we
have to return to the hospital

Axel greets Brandon’s people with his usual level of absolutely arseholery and
lots of passive aggressive sniping. Some of his points make sense – like the
need to ration especially with more people – but generally he’s an arsehole
making it clear he resents them there and would just as soon kick them all out
to die. He’s such a nice guy like that

Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t win him any fans and Brandon’s
group don’t really trust him and start holding their own meetings

to die. He’s such
a nice guy like that

Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t win him any fans and Brandon’s
group don’t really trust him and start holding their own meetings.

All in all this just makes me roll my eyes – can someone
explain the level of mistrust and suspicion humans have against each other in
this world setting? I suppose we have seen collaborators – but then someone’s
going to have to explain that supreme bullshit to me as well

This cumulates when one of Brandon’s groups is murdered
by the same murderer from last week. Axel tries to cover it up but John thinks
everyone has a right to know about the murderer in their midst. Not because he’s
caring and concerned but because it lets him be an arsehole to Axel. Yes,
decisions are made almost entirely based on whether it irritates someone or not

Brandon is, rather understandably, a little annoyed that
no-one felt the need to include “there’s a murderer among us” in the induction
pack and stages a little coup locking up Axel and the whole original gang in a
cell so they can snipe at each other. They come to no conclusions as to who the
murderer is but Axel confesses because Brandon decides he’ll banish whoever the
murderer is. Axel doesn’t really give a shit about anyone there and would much
rather be out there looking for Vanessa since he has a creepy obsession over
here. Sidekick Mohammed also wants to leap on this Sparticus bandwagon and adds
his own confession. Please let this be so he can find his sister Sheema as he
said last episode rather than to find Vanessa. Brandon doesn’t believe Mohammed
but is quite happy to kick him out, unarmed, to get him out of their hair. Alas
he doesn’t feel the same about Axel.

Sam also tries, but at this point they risk being sued
for stretching the Sparticus reference a bit too far.